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Historians say CNN wrong to compare Communists to Trump’s coup plotters

February 12, 2021 By Special to People’s World

CNN has its history wrong when it comes to equating the Trump coup to the 1948 Communist conspiracy trials, say a group of prominent academics.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s final day: June 19th, 1953

June 19, 2015 By Jennifer Meeropol

At the height of the Cold War anti-communist hysteria, the lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were extinguished. On the anniversary of their executions, their granddaughter has a message.

June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs

June 13, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

Think back to the political climate of the early 1950s: Senator Joseph McCarthy on the prowl. Alger Hiss convicted of “losing China.” Eleven leaders of the Communist Party convicted of “conspiracy to teach and advocate the...